Pie Chart of all tweets about COVID-19
Background
The data was collected from Twitter’s API using the “rtweet” package in R. A total of 15 000 tweets was collected, 300 tweets from each of the 5 source. The tweets was the filtered based on their content. Tweets that related to Covid-19 or Vacination was included in the final data set. After filtering, 11 000 tweets remained.
Source: https://rtweet.info/
Descriptions
Looking at the pie chart one can see that media houses Tweeted significantly more about Covid-19 than the Government. With SABC and News24 posting the most about Covid-19.